Silicon Valley Power and DAS Group Professionals agree to install new
wireless technology around Convention Center, Great America, Levi’s
Stadium

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 5, 2015 —
Enhanced cell phone and wireless data services will become available to
many businesses, workers, visitors and residents of the
City
of Santa Clara in early 2016 when a new outdoor distributed antenna
system (oDAS) is installed in the city district north of Highway 101.
The area, defined by California’s
Great
America theme park, the
Santa
Clara Convention Center and
Levi’s
Stadium, will be the first in Santa Clara to get the new technology
due to an agreement between DAS Group Professionals (DGP) of Walnut
Creek and
Silicon
Valley Power (SVP), the City of Santa Clara’s municipal electric
utility.

AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and others will be able to leverage this
system to provide their customers with quality service while not
overloading wireless equipment due to crowds at conventions, Great
America or Levi’s Stadium. DGP will build, maintain and operate the
system as it currently does for
Bay
Area Rapid Transit and fans inside Levi’s Stadium.

“DAS Group Professionals has an excellent record for developing
distributed antenna systems,” said John Roukema, Director of SVP. “They
also presented the City with a positive financial model while providing
a valuable benefit to our community.”

SVP and
DGP
agreed to share the initial cost of building the new antenna system. SVP
expects to recover its outlay from DGP within two years of operation,
after which DGP will continue to pay SVP for access to the city’s
infrastructure and fiber optic network.

Taken together, the oDAS nodes and the existing SVP Fiber Enterprise
fiber optic network will form a city-owned Wireless Service Provider
(WSP) network that will benefit all users of participating carriers. The
network also complements Santa Clara’s
SVP
MeterConnect® free
outdoor
Wi-Fi access service launched citywide in 2013.

Silicon
Valley Power is the trademark adopted for use by the not-for-profit
electric municipal utility of
Santa
Clara, CA serving residents and businesses for over 100 years. SVP
provides power to more than 50,000 customers, including Applied
Materials, Intel, Owens Corning, Yahoo! and NVIDIA at rates 15 to 45
percent below neighboring communities.